2010, Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen,
Romance Languages: a historical introduction page 325:
- [discussingnumquam in the Old French portion of theOaths of Strasbourg] a Latinizing spelling, maybe a pureLatinism, not surviving in modern French (but cf. Old Frenchonques <umquam ‘ever’). Note the double negative, literally ‘will never make no pact’